BRUNELLESCHI - ALBERTI Flashcards
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ALBERTI’S 10 BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTERS
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- LINEAMENTS
- MATERIALS
- CONSTRUCTION
- PUBLIC WORKS
- WORKS O INDIVIDUALS
- ORNAMENT
- ORNAMENT TO SACRED BLDGS
- ORNAMENT TO PUBLIC SECULAR BLDGS
- ORNAMENT TO PRIVATE BLDGS
- RESTORATION OF BUILDINGS
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PALAZZO PITTI
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PALAZZO PITTI
- 1458, LUCA PITTI RESIDENCE
- Archt: LUCA FANCELLI pupil of Brunelleschi
- Style: more utilitarian domestic than humanist rules (Alberti)
- 1549, PURCHASED BY MEDICI Fam.
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GIORGIO VASARI
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- 1511 - 1574, FLORENCE
- considered 1ST ART HISTORIAN
- PAINTER, ARCHITECT, WRITER HISTORIAN
- “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, & Architects” (1550)
- first used “RENAISSANCE” in print
- built the UFFIZI LOGGIA that faces the Arno River
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LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
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- 1404 - 1472, FLORENCE
- Wealthy background, well educated
- Rennaissance Humanist AUTHOR, ARTIST, ARCHITECT, POET PRIEST, LINGUIST
- ARCHITECTURE:
- Facade Rucellai Palace, 1446
- Facade Santa Maria Novella
- DE RE AEDIFICATORIA, 1452
- in the spirit of Vitruvius’ ten books
- “The Art of Building in 10 Books”
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FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
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- 1377 - 1446, FLORENCE
- SCULPTOR AND ARTIST FIRST, THEN BECAME ARCHITECT
- FLORENCE DUOMO
- LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
- Other Arch:
- Foundling Hospital (1419-45), columns ht. = arch
- Basilica San Lorenzo (1421-42), central nave, old sacristy
- Basilica Santo Spirito (1434-66), nave ht = 2x width, Corinthian columns
- Pazzi Chapel (1430-44)
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SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE
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- FLORENCE DUOMO
- orig. Santa Reparata
- construction lasted 140 years
- 1296, ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO, designed in Gothic style
- 1303, Giotto and Andrea Pisano take over
- 1348, Black Death slows work
- 1418, Competition for Dome - BRUNELLESCHI
- 1420-1436 DOME CONSTRUCTION
- first octagonal dome
- influenced by Pantheon
- commitment to reject the gothic buttresses of France
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ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO
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- 1240 - 1303, TUSCANY
- 1266 - 1267, worked in Rome for Charles I of Anjou
- Giorgio Vasari wrote a biography in: ‘Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects’
- started original Santa Maria del Fiore, 1296
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COSIMO DE’ MEDICI
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- 1389 - 1464, FLORENCE
- BANKER POLITICIAN
- POWER WAS NOT ABSOLUTE
- FOUNDED FIRST LIBRARY IN FLORENCE, SAN MARCO
- MICHELOZZO, ARCHITECT
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MECHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMEO MICHELOZZI
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- 1396 - 1472, FLORENCE, “MICHELOZZO”
- PUPIL OF LORENZO GHIBERTI
- PALAZZO MEDICI RICCARDI, 1444 - 1484
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“THE SECURITY, DIGNITY, AND HONOR OF THE REPUBLIC DEPEND GREATLY ON THE ARCHITECT…HE SHOULD NO DOUBT BE ACCORDED PRAISE AND RESPECT”
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ALBERTI’S PROLOGUE
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MERIDIAN GATE
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(Beijing & Suzhou)
- Southern and largest gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing
- The gate has 5 arches, central was for the emperor
- The superstructure is also called the ‘5 phoenix turrets’
- because it is composed of 5 bldgs
- Behind the view is the Upright Gate
- The next gate is the Gate of Supreme Harmony
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GATE OF SUPREME HARMONY
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(Beijing & Suzhou)
- The second major gate in the south of the Forbidden City
- originally built during the Ming dynasty
- Emperor held morning court sessions here to discuss state affairs - more ceremonial
- Qing dynasty took court sessions more diligently and were moved to the gate of heavenly purity
- The gate is 3 bays deep and 7 bays wide and flanked by two minor gates
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PALACE OF HEAVENLY PURITY
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(Beijing & Souzhou)
- or Qianqing Palace
- a palace w/in the Forbidden City
- the largest of the three halls of the Inner Court (other two are Hall of Union & Palace of Earthly Tranquility)
- Qing dynasty used as the Emperor’s audience hall and where he held court with the Grand Council
- Double eaved bldg and set on a single level white marble platform
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Yingzao Fashi
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(Beijing & Suzhou)
- [State Building Standards] by Li Jie
- Emperor Huizong of Song dynasty had it published
- treatise on architectural methods or state building standards
- to provide a unified set of architectural standards for builders, architects, and literate craftsmen as well as engineering agencies of the central government
- 1st published 1100
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(Beijing & Suzhou)
- ZHUZHENG YUAN/ARTLESS ADMIN GARDEN
- illustrative of scholar class values
- Suzhou, China
- Ming Dynasty 1506-21
- Wang Xianchen, imperial envoy and poet wanted to retire and built this garden
- the garden was swampland and needed to be terraformed